Browsing: Unsolved

Afternoon reading from the Village Voice Empire:Did computer science major Raphael Nuñez, Jr. — in his pot, ecstasy and jungle-juice stupor — mistakenly wander onto a freeway before being struck and
killed, or was it all a part of a fraternity hazing ritual? OC Weekly has the story.

It’s an American workplace ritual. Every week workers pool their money to play the lottery in hopes of striking it rich so they can quit their shitty jobs and spend the rest of their lives living in splendor and fending off mooching friends and relatives…

Vanessa Mascolino was behind on her rent at the Desert Moon Spa and Resort in Palm Springs. So 39-year-old Robby Gilmore, who worked in another part of the complex, stopped by Thursday night to collect. When she refused to pay, Vanessa says the collection turned physical…

41-year-old Amy Patterson was supposed to show up for her job as a science teacher at Mariner Middle School on July 25. But when she was a no-show, the school called her Pine Island, Florida home, only to find out she’d died in a tragic car accident…

Two years ago, 24-year-old Erika Lopez left her home in Revere, Massachusetts to follow a boyfriend west. She ended up in tony Newport Beach, California. The relationship didn’t last, but Erika stayed on. Her family says she lived in an apartment by herself…

UPDATE: Witnesses say that when Gary Giordano reported Robyn Gardner missing, he had a large scratch on his throat, there was blood on the beach, and his shorts weren’t wet, even though he claimed that they were snorkeling. See update after the jump…

UPDATE: Steven Cross has been arrested in the coastal town of Cambria, California, where he reportedly found work at a deli. But this may be more than just a story of a father whose luck went bad in a wretched economy. See update after the jump...

No one believes 22-year-old Katelyn Markham would simply disappear on her own. She was known as both pragmatic and responsible. Not only was she about to graduate next month from the Art Institute of
Cincinnati, but she also held jobs at the school and David’s Bridal…

Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire:A three-month-old baby fell from the parking structure at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. A pedestrian witnessed the fall and called police,
who speculate that the infant was tossed from the parking structure. OC Weekly has the story.